Sad weekend chez Derb — days 1 & 2 A.B. (After Boris) For therapeutic purposes, we spent Saturday busily putting up a memorial web page, Mom & kids trawling through old photograph albums, Dad hacking the HTML. Saturday evening & much of Sunday I spent answering emails from kind readers. Many thanks to all. I don’t think I missed any, but if I did, apologies.

Good conservative principle: Everything has to be paid for. The sadness we feel now is not a high price for all those years of loving companionship.